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REWE Group

The REWE Group is a German diversified retail and tourism co-operative group based in Cologne, Germany. The name REWE comes from Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften", meaning "Western Buying Co-operatives Auditing Association".

Company type

Private. Cooperative, Joint-stock company

Retailing

Stüssgen Edit this on Wikidata

1927 (current form 1972)

Cologne
,
Germany

Lionel Souque, CEO
Heinz-Bert Zander, Chairman

Department stores, Supermarkets, Convenience stores, Cash&Carry, Hypermarkets, Home improvement, etc.

€84.4 billion (2022)

491,400,000 Euro (2017) Edit this on Wikidata

337,800,000 Euro (2017) Edit this on Wikidata

19,506,400,000 Euro (2017) Edit this on Wikidata

363,633 (2019)

www.rewe-group.com

– supermarket chain in Germany with 3,300 stores.

REWE

– supermarket chain with over 1,000 stores in Austria and 400 stores in other European countries

BILLA

– discount supermarket chain with 3,000 stores in Germany, Austria, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic

Penny

nahkauf – operator in Germany.

convenience store

toom BauMarkt – A /home improvement chain with 250 stores in Germany

DIY

Billa Plus – supermarket chain with 100 stores in Austria (formerly known as Merkur)

BIPA – health and beauty retail chain with 560 stores in Austria and 58 stores in

Croatia

REWE Ihr Kaufpark – supermarket chain with 120 stores in , Germany (formerly known as Kaufpark)

North Rhine-Westphalia

– supermarket chain in Lithuania

Palink

*Sales of retail activities

Digital Business[edit]

In 2013, the REWE Group founded a subsidiary named REWE Digital, which is responsible for all strategic online activities.[19] The group also acquired the e-commerce platform vendor commercetools[20] and ZooRoyal, an e-commerce website for animal food and pet supplies.[21] In 2017 REWE Group announced to make additional investments in the billions in order to further digitalize their business.[22] In 2020 REWE digital, for the first time, spun-off one of its business units and founded the independent company OC Fulfillment GmbH, vendor of the omnichannel fulfillment software-as-a-service platform fulfillmenttools.[23] In 2021 REWE Group announced the inception of Paymenttools, provider of on- and offline payment solutions for retailers.[24]

Cassis de Dijon[edit]

In 1979, Rewe won a significant case in the European Court of Justice, the Cassis de Dijon case.

REWE Group